The Chetak is a version of the Alouette III built by HAL in Bangalore, India under a Jun 1962 licence. Production began in 1969, following earlier orders placed around 1965, after the first Indian assembled example flew on 11 Jun 1965. By 1978, 209 had been produced and after nearly 40 years, in 2005 some 330 Chetaks had been produced, mainly for Indian use (military and civil) but some have found other African and Asian customers (eg Nepal in 1974, Namibia in 1994). 
Derivatives & Versions | |
| Model | Year | History |
| chetan | 2005 | Prototype Chetan introduced in Jan 2005, probably to give a boost to the HAL manufacturing plant as Chetak production gives way to the new Dhruv. ... |
List of Operators of HAL chetak | |
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| 1978 |
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| Construction Numbers on database of chetak or its versions | ||||||
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| C/N | Built as | Year | History | |
| AH178 |  MPH-01 : HAL Chetak, cn AH178, ff:?; del Indina AF as Z1802, unk+ | |||
| AH289 | MPH-03 : HAL Chetak, cn AH289, ff:?; xfer to Mauritius Police He+ | |||
| AH290 |  IN475 : preserved at Indian Naval Aviation Museum, Goa by 2008 | |||
| AH292 | IN477 : Indian Navy in 2009 deployed aboard INS Beas F37. INAS + | |||
| AH298 | MPH-06 : HAL Chetak, cn AH298, ff:?; xfer to Mauritius Police He+ | |||
| AH306 |  NA-029 : Nepal, ex RAN-29 | |||
| AH307 | NA-030 : Nepal, ex RAN-30 | |||
| AH326 |  H 704 : Namibia Air Force from Nov94; VIP configured; Jul99 sti+ | |||
| AH337 | NA-034 : Nepal, ex RAN-34 | |||
| AH338 | NA-035 : Nepal, ex RAN-35 | |||
 | AH350 |  SAF H001 : Surinam Jan15 | ||
| AH351 | SAF H002 : Surinam Jan15 | |||
| AH352 | SAF H003 : Surinam Jan15 | |||
 | Z1897 : preserved HAL Aerospace Museum by 2008 | |||
| | Z968 : instructional airframe at College of Electrical and Mec+ | |||
| | H 702 : Namibia Air Force from Nov04; w/o 16jan99 | |||
| | CG801 : ICG | |||
| | CG803 : 10mar18 hard landing after technical fault between Lonv+ | |||
| | IN492 : Indian Navy  19nov16 pictured aboard INS Sumitra (P59) giving salute+ |